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Counterpoint: What About the Students?
An op-ed this week on transfer of credit worried more about the burdens on registrars than the needs of students or taxpayers, Elise Scanlon and Roger Williams argue.
Here They Come, Walking Down the Street
Students are returning to Hinterland’s campus in droves, and it’s not even dorm move-in yet, let alone the start of...
Ask the Administrator: Following Up on an Application
A new correspondent writes: I'm in need of some advice regarding a CC job that I applied for. I'm currently...
Surviving the First Year
As she gets ready to start as an assistant professor, Shari Dinkins shares the advice she's received and the lessons she learned.
Dynes Dines
When universities, and university systems, become very rich and very byzantine, it's both hard to run them and easy to...
Drinking and Deaning
According to this article, Anthony Campbell, the Dean of Students at Rider College (N.J.), has been indicted on charges of...
Score One for the Secretary
Her campaign to measure student learning was ill-conceived, but Spellings deserves credit for changing the conversation about higher education, Bernard Fryshman writes.
Time to Step Back
Higher education accreditation is badly flawed. But expanding the federal role, as Margaret Spellings proposes, is the wrong way to fix it, Jane S. Shaw writes.